Achieve reliable and repeatable color across sign and display printing systems, materials, and production runs. Barbieri spectrophotometers provide accurate spectral measurement for a wide range of rigid, flexible, transparent, and textured materials used in professional sign and display production.

Sign and Display Printing

Reliable color across materials and printing technologies

Sign and display producers work with a wide variety of printing technologies, inks, print modes, and substrates. The same color can behave differently on vinyl, banner material, textile, backlit film, acrylic, glass, or rigid board.

Professional color measurement provides the spectral data required to create accurate media profiles, reproduce brand colors, align multiple printers, and verify production quality.

Barbieri spectrophotometers are developed specifically for professional digital printing applications. They support automated chart measurement, reliable measurement of challenging materials, and integration with leading RIP and Color Management solutions.

Barbieri spectrophotometers are purpose-built for these environments: designed to measure all substrates and materials in digital printing applications, integrate with leading RIP software, and deliver traceable, standards-compliant data at production speed.

What makes color control in sign and display printing difficult

Diverse materials and surfaces

Surface texture, gloss, transparency, fluorescence, and material structure influence both visual appearance and measurement results. Reliable profiling requires a measurement instrument that can accommodate the physical and optical properties of the sample.

Multiple printer, ink, and media combinations

Every combination of printer, ink, print mode, and substrate has its own color characteristics. Accurate media profiles help producers achieve predictable results and make better use of the available color gamut.

Consistency across production runs

Environmental conditions, ink behavior, printhead performance, and material batches can cause color output to change over time. Regular measurement helps detect deviations and maintain consistent production quality.

Where Color Measurement Fits Your Sign and Display Printing Workflow

Substrate profiling

Measure the color behavior of each printer, ink, print mode, and substrate combination as the basis for accurate media profiling.

ICC profile creation

Print and measure profiling charts to create accurate ICC profiles for specific printer, ink, print mode, and substrate combinations.

Process verification

Measure control charts or production samples at defined intervals to identify color drift and verify repeatability between production runs.

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Color quality control

Compare measured results with reference data, customer specifications, brand color requirements, internal production tolerances, or applicable industry standards.

Recommended Accessories for Sign and Display Printing

Extend the measurement capabilities of the Spectro LFP qb with accessories designed for flexible, transparent, and challenging sign and display materials.

Electrostatic Sample Holder

Holds flexible substrates flat without adhesive for clean, repeatable measurements.

Uses an electrostatic charge to keep flexible non-textile substrates such as paper, film and thin plastics flat during measurement. Avoids residue or damage that adhesive holders can leave on sensitive materials. Ideal for graphic-arts and packaging substrates where surface integrity matters.

Frame Transmission Sample Holder for M1 measurements

Enables M1-compliant transmission measurements per ISO 13655.

A precision frame holder for transmission measurements requiring M1 measurement conditions per ISO 13655. Accommodates films, transparencies, and backlit substrates while ensuring consistent positioning and repeatable measurement geometry.

See how industry leaders use Barbieri.

Packaging & Label

CGS ORIS GmbH

CGS ORIS GmbH is a leading developer of color management solutions, contract proofing systems, and workflow software for the printing industry.

Textile

Sync-Innovation

SYNC-INNOVATION is a Japanese one-stop shop for consumer goods, integrating design, production, inventory, and delivery for major e-commerce platforms.